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System Properties Comparison dBASE vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. H2GIS vs. HEAVY.AI vs. TempoIQ

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NamedBASE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptiondBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Spatial extension of H2A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.dbase.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.h2gis.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
tempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasefirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedocs.heavy.ai
DeveloperAsthon TateGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CNRSHEAVY.AI, Inc.TempoIQ
Initial release19792012201320162012
Current releasedBASE 2019, 20195.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsnone infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesdBase proprietary IDEJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.limited functionality with using 'rules'yes infobased on H2nono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on H2Multi-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infobased on H2fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple authentication-based access control

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